Assuasive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Assuasive \As*sua"sive\, a. [From assuage, as if this were fr. a
     supposed L. assuadere to persuade to; or from E. pref. ad +
     -suasive as in persuasive.]
     Mitigating; tranquilizing; soothing. [R.]
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Music her soft assuasive voice applies.  --Pope.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  assuasive
       adj : freeing from fear and anxiety [syn: {calming}, {pacifying},
             {soothing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "assuasive":
     alleviating, alleviative, altering, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne,
     balmy, balsamic, benumbing, bounding, calmant, calmative,
     cathartic, cleansing, deadening, demulcent, dulling, easing,
     emollient, extenuating, extenuatory, lenitive, limitative,
     limiting, mitigating, mitigative, mitigatory, modificatory,
     modifying, modulatory, numbing, pain-killing, palliative,
     purgative, qualificative, qualificatory, qualifying, relieving,
     remedial, restricting, restrictive, sedative, softening, soothing,
     subduing